Trump says U.S. working with Pakistan to find way out of Afghan war

U.S. President Donald Trump greets Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., July 22, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst President Donald Trump, speaking at a White House meeting with visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, said on Monday the United States is working with Islamabad to find a

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Iran says it arrested 17 CIA spies, sentenced some to death

Photo (AP) Iranian official says 17 were recruited by the CIA to spy on Iran’s nuclear and military sites, a claim the US denies. Iran captured 17 spies working for the US intelligence agency, the CIA, and some have been sentenced to death, an Iranian official said on Monday, a claim Washington denied. Security agencies

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Car bomb blast in Mogadishu 10 people killed

Photo/Somali Times At least 10 people were killed and several others wounded, when a car bomb blast targeted a security checkpoint, in Somali capital Mogadishu on Monday morning, when a bomb went off outside a hotel near the international airport in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Monday, Somali officials said. Somali officials, told Somali Times that

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Uhuru to name acting Treasury CS, PS after Rotich, Thugge arrest

DPP ordered the arrest of Rotich and Thugge over the alleged Kimwarer and Arror dam scandals. President Uhuru Kenyatta is expected to announce an acting Treasury Cabinet Secretary later today.The President is also expected to name an acting Treasury PS in line with his declaration during the State of the Nation address in April. Addressing

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Kenyan finance minister to be arrested and charged over graft: prosecutor

Photo/Reuters Kenya’s finance minister will be arrested and charged over corruption related to the construction of two dams, the chief prosecutor said on Monday, an unprecedented event for a sitting minister in a country notorious for graft. The charges against Henry Rotich stem from a police investigation into the misuse of funds in a dam

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Somali Capital Huge Blast between the Airport and KM4

Photo/Somali Times Mogadishu, The explosion was a vehicle packed with explosives and detonated at the front gate of Afrik at the Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu. the blast heard most districts. It is also close to the Aden Adde International Airport, where the security is tightened, and there are many hotels in the area.

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PM front-runner Boris Johnson says trade deal can break Brexit deadlock

Boris Johnson, a leadership candidate for Britain’s Conservative Party, speaks during a hustings event in London, Britain July 17, 2019. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls Boris Johnson, favoured to become Britain’s new prime minister, said on Sunday the country could agree a free trade deal to leave the European Union that would remove the need for one of

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Manny Pacquiao beats Keith Thurman by split decision

Manny Pacquiao, right, lands a punch against Keith Thurman in the fifth round during a welterweight title fight Saturday, July 20, 2019, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher) From his first-round knockdown punches to his tenacious 12th-round finish, Manny Pacquiao gave yet another one-sided thrashing to Father Time. Keith Thurman was a whole lot tougher

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1,000 firefighters battle wildfires in central Portugal

In this grab taken from video on Saturday, July 20, 2019 provided by TVI, members of the emergency services try to extinguish wildfires, in Vila de Rei, Portugal. Portuguese authorities say 1,000 firefighters are working to contain wildfires that have injured eight firefighters and one civilian. Portugal’s Civil Protection Agency says Sunday that firefighters are

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Ethiopia: At least 17 killed in violence over Sidama autonomy

Photo/Reuters At least 17 people have been killed in clashes between Ethiopian security forces and activists seeking a new autonomous region for their Sidama ethnic group, according to a local official and hospital authorities. A local district official told Reuters news agency on Saturday that at least 13 people were killed in a town near

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